A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams | Directed by L. Zane Jones

Our first play to be produced in residence at New City Theatrewas a re-imagining of the modern classic A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.

Williams called Streetcar "a plea for the understanding of the delicate people.” Williams dramatizes the plight of the delicate people in a world that is indifferent and at times hostile to tenderness, warning us in this beautiful, tragic story, that 'if we don't watch out, the brutes will take over.'

A plague has stricken the moths, the moths are dying, their bodies are flakes of bronze on the carpets lying. Enemies of the delicate everywhere have breathed a pestilent mist into the air.-Excerpt from the poem, 'A Lament for the Moths' by Tennessee Williams

Robin Jones as Blanche and Sam Read as Mitch - A Streetcar Named Desire | Photo by Mike Hipple